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Mrs Pam Cameron: Assembly records
All of Mrs Pam Cameron’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of the reasons for the decline in those joining the medical and dental professions, as noted in the recently published March 2022 Health and Social Care Workforce Census.
To ask the Minister of Finance to outline the cross-departmental work that has been undertaken on budgetary estimates for the Department of Health’s Second Action Plan.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) how he plans to rebuild confidence among General Dental Practitioners in NHS dentistry; and (ii) whether maintaining the 25 per cent Rebuilding Support Scheme enhancement to fees is considered a key way to achieve this.
To ask the Minister of Health, given soaring dental inflation, the impact of COVID and a 40 per cent reduction in dental earnings, whether a cost of service investigation by a third party provider is required for health service dentistry.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of the future for NHS dentistry, in particular finding the additional investment required to deliver a new General Dental Services contract at a time of constrained public finances and urgent pressures, including increasing expenses for dental practitioners.
To ask the Minister of Health what steps his Department is taking to address (i) the pay disparity affecting hospital dentists in Northern Ireland, including trainee pay; (ii) the absence of new Clinical Excellence Awards; and (iii) pensions mitigations.
To ask the Minister of Health whether, following a recent BBC investigation that found 90% of dental practices are not taking on new NHS adult patients and 88% are unable to take on new child patients, additional investment is needed in dentistry.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether she will raise the Carer’s Allowance earnings threshold to the equivalent of 16 hours a week at the Real Living Wage.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether she will consider removing State Pension from the overlapping benefit rules regarding entitlement to Carer’s Allowance.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department will take action to incentivise GP's to remain in work by providing the indemnity cover that their counterparts in the rest of the UK have.
To ask the Minister of Health what Departmental strategies are in place to ensure doctors do not leave the profession, reduce hours or retire earlier than planned so that expertise and capacity can be retained in the system.
To ask the Minister of Health how his Department intends to integrate the recommendations of the policy solutions white paper published by Carers NI with existing strategies on health service transformation, specifically regarding unpaid carers.
To ask the Minister of Health, with reference to the Transformation Implementation Group, to outline how community pharmacy will be represented in his Department's arrangements to support transformation of the health service.
To ask the Minister of Health what assurances he can give that funding provided for the 3-year Community Pharmacy Commissioning Plan will reflect the rising costs and workforce difficulties in community pharmacy.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department will commit to securing the necessary funds to roll-out services under the 3-year Community Pharmacy Commissioning Plan.